Since it’s also a really popular food tracker there are a ton of tutorials online. If you ever run into anything My Fitness Pal has a great website to answer questions. I find that the app is really quite intuitive to use and it works how I would think it would. If I’m making a smoothie for breakfast and want to add a serving of yogurt that I also tracked yesterday, it’ll be the first yogurt that pops up when I start typing yogurt into the search bar. Once you’ve used it for a bit, foods that you’ve tracked before pop up at the top of your list, so they’re easy to add again. It honestly doesn’t get much easier than that.
In addition to searching for foods my typing it in, My Fitness Pal also has a built in UPC scanner, so you can just scan a bar code with your phones camera and it automatically pops up. It did take a few days worth of tracking to get the hang of using the app, but once it became a habit it was super easy to use. Having the foods in the database makes it so much easier (and quicker) to add meals to my day. And even if they don’t have the exact brand name, it’s easy enough to find something similar in terms of calories and macros. I can find most foods in it, even though I live in Canada and there’s quite a few different brands here that aren’t available in the US. One of the big selling features of My Fitness Pal is its extensive database. You just won’t get the bells and whistles that you have to pay for. It’ll get the job done for you too if you don’t mind adds and less customization. (Update, that post is written and you can find it here.) As much as I like the premium version, the free version worked just fine for me for years.
I recently upgraded to the premium version and I’m planning on writing a post about if I think it’s worth it to upgrade.
While I haven’t used it every single day, I have been pretty regular when I’ve been focusing in my food intake. I’ve been using the free version of My Fitness Pal app for years now to track my weight and food.
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